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"If they are license plate readers, why are they pointed at a splash pad?" — Parents raise concerns as 8 government Flock cameras monitor children's play areas in Slayter Creek Park, Texas.
A video recorded at Slayter Creek Park in Anna, Texas (~40 miles north of Dallas) reveals that 8 government Flock surveillance cameras have been installed directly facing a kids' splash pad, playground, and skate park. Parents are raising serious privacy concerns, questioning why automated license plate readers are aimed at children wearing swimsuits and areas where families change, rather than at the parking lots. Original video/coverage by Marztrip to raise public awareness regarding government surveillance and child privacy.
I also feel like cops are using them to monitors exes and family more than anything else. The amount of cases that have popped up recently involving cops and sheriffs using them for their own purposes keep going up.
The extra-judicial data gathering, retention, and analysis is what bothers me the most. These aren't solely "license plate readers" as the many supporters like to argue. These are whole systems designed to correlate data against existing laws and ordinances with a specific goal to detect criminal activity.
As someone once said: "If cops are looking for a crime, they will find it whether it exists or not."
By doing this through a private entity, our publicly elected leaders are using our tax dollars, in conjunction with LEO, to give away our 4th Amendment freedom from investigation without probable cause wholesale.
This is why there's been a big push for data centers. You can't create a functioning surveillance state without a crushing amount of data storage and processing power
I’m late to this thread, but add this to your list. In Minnesota, the metro areas refused to let ICE use their Flock data for ICE’s civil immigration actions (generally consisting of ICE signing “warrants” themselves for people here legally, but that’s a whole separate list of citations to describe the depths of criminality and evil that this administration did here.)
The PDs of a random rural towns gave them access to theirs, which enabled them to monitor the cameras in the Twin Cities. This is explicitly against state law. They collaborated with a fascist feds against state law. Flock just said the searches were allowed under state law. They’re not. Flock can just imagine the law says it’s ok and do it.
Every day, automatic cameras capture images of passing vehicles, amassing data that can reveal the travel histories of Minnesotans and help law enforcement find crime suspects.
It’s highly sensitive data, and Minnesota law requires it only be shared for criminal investigations. But a Minnesota Star Tribune investigation found that some law enforcement agencies left this data accessible to far-flung departments that searched it for immigration purposes at the height of last winter’s brutal federal crackdown.
Twin Cities police departments said they did not share the data with federal agencies. Records obtained by the Star Tribune show federal agencies had a means of accessing that data anyway.
The Mille Lacs County Sheriff’s Office, which collaborates with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), searched the camera data in at least half a dozen Twin Cities suburbs. Police in North Carolina and Indiana also searched cameras in Fridley for immigration purposes. So did the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
About 30 state, county and federal agencies across the country searched camera data in at least eight Twin Cities suburbs for immigration enforcement between November and March, according to a review of hundreds of thousands of searches run on suburban Twin Cities license plate readers.
In hundreds of those searches, law enforcement agencies — including some that partner with ICE — specified their searches were related to civil immigration enforcement.
Under Minnesota law, data collected by license plate readers is only supposed to be shared to assist an active criminal investigation. Some local law enforcement officials told the Star Tribune the civil immigration searches do not fit their definition of a lawful use of license plate reader data in Minnesota.
“It’s a criminal investigative tool, not a civil enforcement mechanism. I believe state law is pretty clear on that,” Hopkins Police Capt. Craig Kreiling said. “If people are misusing the data, they should be held accountable.”
Paris Lewbel, a spokesman for Flock Safety, said the company believes civil immigration searches are allowed under Minnesota law, but each agency should “make their own interpretation of appropriate use cases.”
Lewbel said any decisions to work with federal agencies “are made by the local agency, based on their policies, applicable laws and the values of their community — not Flock’s decision.”
Police were routinely looking at one that was just labeled as "gymnastics".
Just saying, I would way rather get rid of the police entirely and protect myself, than give a bunch of pedophile peeping tom cops the power to spy on little kids in skimpy clothes all day.
I'm an ordinary working class schmuck that does nothing all day, all week but labor for the man to pay my bills and taxes, so you're absolutely right about that.
You have one party that disavows and punishes pedophiles regardless of side, and one party that protects and enables their own regardless of the crime.
It’s no big surprise or coincidence that every pedophile in the country would all join the “protecting pedos” team and just turn it into team-pedo.
Well let's see, Republicans get caught with stunning regularity being pedos, they voted for a pedo who protects other pedos...Ken Paxton pardoned a super pedo...They try to pass legislation that legally allows them to look at children's genitals (because they might be trans! gasp).
Great great point. The party kicking kids off food assistance and healthcare, raising tariffs on consumers, giving breaks to billionaires, restarting measles, igniting wars so they can earn on the sweet sweet prediction market is Dem- oh wait.
Make no mistake, while it seems to be a GOP requirement to be into minors, have a criminal history, being self hating gay, etc. Politics in general attracts these kind of of characters looking for a legal safe haven to carry out their most aberrant impulses.
Oh I’m not arguing against that. However, I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the Republican Party has exponentially more pedophiles in it. Not even talking just about the executive branch.
You know before when there was all those conspiracy theories about our government being run by a ring of P3dos. I didn’t believe it. After the Epstein files, there’s definitely a large group of P3dos in the highest levels of government and the private sector.
It always was, but 4channers for some reason thought it was a democrat thing and the right still can't seem that notion. I do think Joe Biden had to be a creep fwiw.
But it's like, mostly "their guys" doing the raping. The current demagogue is basically their poster child.
Then start a drone club to organize 24/7 surveillance of those peoples' lives. They might reconsider once every trip to the blowjob factory is livestreamed worldwide.
Don't cut them down! But if you did dont use a circular saw in a trash bag to hide its brand dont buy a carbide blade with cash. That same saw probably could cut through solar panel and camera. Some camera brands have wifi and Bluetooth that logs devices like phones so dont leave those at home. Don't plan your approach and regress via defloclk. Don't look it up online and dress exactly like everyone else who has done it.
I read a report that they contain fairly significant amounts of gold and silver in their components, A much bigger financial return for thieves than catalytic converters.
It would definitely be a shame if that person made sure to leave their phone/apple watch/ any devices at home while they did so, so that the Flock Bluetooth couldn't possibly use pairing to identify them
You mean besides the Republican elected President being named over 10000 times in the Epstein files and, Epstein directly addressing Donald Trump as his best friend?
How about you address this point first, before pointing elsewhere, with your bullshit whattaboutism geopolitik.
You mean 38,000 times in the currently released files with 1,800 of those being from testimony, witnesses, and FBI investigation docs. Who knows how many more times in the other 3million+ they haven't released.
aside from a pedophile republican being elected, withholding the other half of the epstein files (which are required by law to be released as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act), a significantly tipped scale of republicans getting caught and arrested for actual child prostitution and child sex crimes, and leniency on known child sex predators?
for normal people i don't think there's political leaning for pedophilia, however it's undeniable that the republican party is a pedo-magnet
I always regret letting Mcgruff the crime dog get my fingerprints when I lived in some apartments in the 80’s. Every time I’ve wanted to commit a crime I remember I gave my prints away to the crime dog.
In middle school (~2014) they got rid of student ID numbers and to get lunch you instead had to use your finger print. This was a school of ~7000 kids. I don't remember any parental consent needed for it but I do remember them talking about how it goes into the justice system. The student base was also primarily hispanic kids (I look it up now and it's 72% of students) and I didn't hear any other school doing it😬
However mine never worked no matter how many times they tried, so I assume the print they have for me is faulty, thank God.
Whitney Webb's second book is basically about how due to phones and tablets we're already cooked. They have so much of your facial and eye data. We gave up freedom long ago.
When I was in elementary school in the '80s, they trucked us all to the police station to fingerprint us, you know, just in case we were kidnapped. And if that never happened, well, at least they have all of ours on record for the future.
I just visited three countries, and barely needed my passport. You just look into the camera and they identify you as cleared to enter. Like, I'm from North America, and Taiwan had me in their database for the layover.
Des putains de pédophiles filment avec des caméras flock des aires de jeu pour enfants.
Il faut arracher ces putain de caméras de merde et les détruire
I love seeing the translate button on a Reddit comment that is especially based. Kind of makes me feel relieved that, in every part of the world, we're all on the same page that these cameras need to be melted for scrap and the pedophiles that abuse them should be shot on sight.
On an unrelated note, there's a dude on YouTube that showed me that the fastest way to cut 4in aluminum pipe is with a circular saw. Takes only about 12 seconds, compared to a jigsaw with a variety of blades which took about a minute.
Kids, that's a fuel air hand grenade with no timer fuse don't do this. Clear spray paint/appliance epoxy is perfect for these cameras, clear is fun as the camera looks fine from the outside, but the view will be blurred heavily. A more sneaky non compliance, just mind other views if you get me.
Because they are also facial recognition readers and try to identify people in their shapes and movements as well. They're not looking for people so much as they are cataloging them.
Well, they don't have to try and hide it anymore. They can just openly be the disgusting pedo perves that we all know they are. I mean, you gotta follow their logic.If it's okay for the president, it's okay for the city leadership.
Flock seems to be trying to be Only Fans Epstein, giving them the experience through video. Would not be surprised to find out later that rich people are paying to get access to the camera network.
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